The end of dissonance? France and central Europe’s newly converging strategic outlooks

France and Central European states have long been incarnating opposite sides of the European debates on how, where, and with (or against) whom to build the continent’s security. As this forum contribution will show, however, the major exogenous shock of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war has altered this state of affairs. Deep-seated changes in France’s policies towards Russia and the Eastern neighbourhood, and Central European states’ greater (though relative) opening towards self-standing European security initiatives, have made their strategic outlooks more convergent than ever. Studying their variegated geopolitical visions, their evolutions, and the imaginaries that underpin them, reveal particularly fruitful to explore the realm of the possible when it comes to re-organising European security.